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(No Model.)

L. EHRLIOH. ROLL PAPER HOLDER AND GUTTER.

No. 428,473. Patented May 20, 1890 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEO EHRLICH, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGN OR TO THE AMERICAN ROLLPAPER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

ROLL-PAPER HOLDER AND CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,473, dated May 20,1890.

Application filed July 27, 1888- Serial No. 281,166. (No model.)

chine for holding and cutting wrapping-paper,

r wherein the knife is automatically fed or held against the roll ofpaper as the the latter decreases in size as the paper is removed foruse. Hy invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fullydescribed, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 represents a suitable base, towhich are secured end supports or standards 2. These standards haveforks 3 at their upper ends, 2 5 which receive the gudgeons or journals4: of the roller 5, upon which the paper 6 is wound. The standards arefurther provided with extensions 7 to which are pivoted arms or levers8, preferably made in crescent form, as shown 0 in Fig. II. To the outerends of these arms the knife 9 is secured, one end of the knife beingsecured to one of the arms at one end of the roll and the other end ofthe knife being secured to the other arm at the other end 3 5 of theroll, so as to cross in front of the roll, as shown in Fig. I. On theinner ends of the arms are weights, these weights acting to hold theknife against the roll of paper, the arms turning on their pivots 11 asthe paper is removed and the size of the roll decreased, and in this waythe knife is held constantly against the roll, automatically moving fromthe position shown in dotted lines in Fig. II to the position shown infull lines, Fig. II, and from the latter position still further towardthe roll 5 as the size of the roll of paper is decreased.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of the roll of paper,pivoted arms, knife secured to the arms at one side of the pivot, andthe weights secured to the arms at the other side of the pivot,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with a suitable support for a roll of paper, of armspivoted to the support, having a knife secured to their outer ends, andweights secured to their inner ends adapted to hold the knife in contactwith the roll, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of the base, standards secured to the base, rollerhaving journals fitting in notches in the standards, paper on theroller, arms pivoted to the standards, knife secured to the outer endsof the arms, and 6 5 weights on the inner ends of the arms,substantially as and for the purpose set forth 4. The combination of thestandards, roll of paper supported by the standards, curved arms pivotedto said standards and weighted 70 at their inner ends, and a knifemounted upon the outer ends of said arms and held against the roll ofpaper by said weights, sub- "stantially as and for the purpose setforth.

LEO EHRLICH.

In presence of J os. WAHLE, EDW. S. KNIGHT.

